1 Pound Bank of Mona

The Bank of Mona was a short-lived Isle of Man institution, chartered to serve a small island economy that already had an overcrowded field of note-issuing banks by the mid-nineteenth century. It did not survive long enough to establish meaningful circulation, and notes from this issuer are genuinely rare survivors — not because of systematic destruction, but simply because so few were ever put into use.

Gilmour & Dean were a Glasgow commercial printing firm, competent but not among the specialist banknote engravers of the period. Their involvement here is typical of smaller provincial issuers who lacked the budget or prestige to commission Perkins Bacon or similar security printers.